Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inside your front cover are these words: "Cultivated Americans, impatient with cheap sensationalism and windy bias, turn increasingly to publications edited in the historical spirit. These publications, fairdealing, vigorously impartial, devote themselves to the public weal in the sense that they report what they see, serve no masters, fear no groups...
...wish to congratulate you on the high quality of your leadership. You are able, experienced, trustworthy and safe. Your success in the campaign seems assured, and I shall turn over the great office of President of the United States of America to your keeping, sure that it will be in competent hands in which the welfare of the people will be secure...
...President Samuel Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, publicly asked: "Shall we turn over this magnificent Governmental structure to a showman [Governor Smith] to be President...
...sooty raven of hard luck creaked again, last week, at poor Edouard Herriot. His toboggan from power has been likened to that of David Lloyd George. Both men are time servers, gambling on the turn of the mob. The undoing of M. Herriot began when he dared to duel politically for the Prime Ministry of France (TIME, July 26, 1926), with wily Aristide Briand, who has held that office nine times. When Briand and the mob were done with Edouard Herriot he had been turned out of the Prime Ministry, after an incumbency of two days, and skinned...
...players. She likes to stand at shop windows, nose pressed against the pane, to look at glittering things. But for jewels, save pearls and emeralds, she cares little, dresses simply always and in perfect taste. She likes potatoes, dumplings, sausages and cabbage, can cook them all herself and turn a handspring when she has finished eating. She hates tobacco smoke and being interviewed. "Make the story yourself," she has told more than one reporter and the results have varied from pictures of a Christmas-tree angel to a proud and haughty diva. Those who meet her find her shy, eager...